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    Hoa Hakananai'a is a moai, a statue from Easter Island. It was taken from Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of a British ship and is...
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    the Metropolitan Museum of Art was decorated with a reddish pigment. Hoa Hakananai'a was decorated with maroon and white paint until 1868, when it was removed...
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    of three extant in the world) and the famous Easter Island statues Hoa Hakananai'a and Moai Hava. Americas The Americas collection mainly consists of...
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     1400 BC) Two obelisks of the Egyptian King Nectanebo II (c. 350 BC) Hoa Hakananai'a, a statue from Easter Island (Date unknown, but between 1200 and 1800...
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  • Decoded: Easter Island Heads, in which he asks for the return of the Hoa Hakananai'a from the British Museum. He died on 29 July 2017 and is buried in Miru...
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    1868, the crew of HMS Topaze removed the huge basalt moai known as Hoa Hakananai'a from Orongo. It is now housed in the British Museum. The site of Orongo...
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    1838, the only standing moai were on the slopes of Rano Raraku, in Hoa Hakananai'a in Orongo, and Ariki Paro in Ahu Te Pito Kura. Diamond and West's version...
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    1838, the only standing moai were on the slopes of Rano Raraku and Hoa Hakananai'a at Orongo. In about 60 years, islanders had damaged this part of their...
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    1868 saw the crew remove the two moai Hoa Hakananai'a and Moai Hava and ship them to Britain. Hoa Hakananai'a was found in November 1868 by officers...
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  • 10 March 2022. Van Tilburg, Jo Anne (2006). Remote Possibilities: Hoa Hakananai'a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui. British Museum Research Papers. Vol. 158...
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    view of monumental destruction". Church Monuments. 23: 137–41 (137). Hoa Hakananai'a British Museum, accessed 26 April 2010 Toynbee, 47–48, on Ancient Rome...
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    Enigma Bronze Head from Ife Codex Kingsborough Double-headed serpent Hoa Hakananai'a Throne of Weapons Kayung totem pole Tree of Life Yaxchilan Lintel 24...
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    Mike; Miles, Jason; Pagi, Hembo & Earl, Graeme (September 2014). "Hoa Hakananai'a: A new study of an Easter Island statue in the British Museum". The...
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    Tlazolteotl Mexico AD 900 – 1521 BBC BM Marina Warner, Kim Richter 70 Hoa Hakananai'a Easter Island AD 1000–1200 BBC BM Sir Anthony Caro, Steve Hooper...
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  • (2004). Hoa Hakananai'a. Objects in Focus. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714150246. Van Tilburg, Jo Anne (2006). Remote Possibilities: Hoa Hakananai'a...
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    Museum featured the helmet alongside other Museum objects such as Hoa Hakananai'a and a mask of Xiuhtecuhtli. In 2006 the helmet was voted one of the...
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    Xiuhtecuhtli alongside other Museum objects such as the Sutton Hoo helmet and Hoa Hakananai'a. Xiuhcoatl Lords of the Night (mythology) Nagual Serpent (symbolism)...
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  • Bahn, Paul (May 2014). "Comments on historical images of the moai Hoa Hakananai'a" (PDF). Rapa Nui Journal. 28 (1). Easter Island Foundation: 53–59....
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    antedating the Palaeolithic rock paintings of Altamira & Lascaux in Europe. Hoa Hakananai'a, an example of a moai; c. 1200 AD; flow lava; height: 242 cm; British...
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    Enigma Bronze Head from Ife Codex Kingsborough Double-headed serpent Hoa Hakananai'a Throne of Weapons Kayung totem pole Tree of Life Yaxchilan Lintel 24...
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    Enigma Bronze Head from Ife Codex Kingsborough Double-headed serpent Hoa Hakananai'a Throne of Weapons Kayung totem pole Tree of Life Yaxchilan Lintel 24...
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    Papa Museum and Otago Museum. On display at the British Museum is Hoa Hakananai’a, a mo'ai whose return to the Rapa Nui people was formally requested...
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    a cast of A'a is today displayed in the mayor's office on Rurutu. Hoa Hakananai'a Mangareva Statue Adams, Hooper & Nuku 2016, p. 19. "A'a". British Museum...
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  • other similar figure, from the George Ortiz collection, is known. Hoa Hakananai'a Statue of A'a from Rurutu Mangareva Statue Catalogue: The George Ortiz...
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    Enigma Bronze Head from Ife Codex Kingsborough Double-headed serpent Hoa Hakananai'a Throne of Weapons Kayung totem pole Tree of Life Yaxchilan Lintel 24...
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  • Enigma Bronze Head from Ife Codex Kingsborough Double-headed serpent Hoa Hakananai'a Throne of Weapons Kayung totem pole Tree of Life Yaxchilan Lintel 24...
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    sculpture held by the Metropolitan Museum in New York Mangarevan mythology Hoa Hakananai'a Statue of A'a from Rurutu Deity Figure from Rarotonga D.B. Waite, 'Three...
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  • The Rosetta Stone Bromley: George, Ellie & Charlotte (Won) Relic: Hoa Hakananai'a Gemma Arrowsmith as Agatha uncredited as the Dark Lord Helen Evans...
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    Enigma Bronze Head from Ife Codex Kingsborough Double-headed serpent Hoa Hakananai'a Throne of Weapons Kayung totem pole Tree of Life Yaxchilan Lintel 24...
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